Trade-Ideas in Your Town: What Smaller Events Can Teach You

You have 2 opportunities (one in San Diego and the other in Phoenix) to get some great education and learn not only about how to use Trade-Ideas more effectively with your trading plan, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see how our latest tool, the Automated Trading Bot, automates a trading plan with OptionsXpress.…

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RoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007

It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…

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How the Rubberband Man Improved Automated Trading

Market Orders?! Automated trading functionality introduced by Trade-Ideas only had market orders for initiating and covering positions. Market orders?! The first version of the software was more proof of concept than anything else. That’s why the ones using it were kept to a bare minimum. Much is about to change. After analyzing trader feedback and…

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This Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.

We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…

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Your Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It

The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…

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Weekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran

A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…

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OptionsXpress Pilot Underway!

The OptionsXpress Automated Trading Pilot program is now officially underway. It is very easy to get started. You just need an account with OptionsXpress and a subscription to Trade-Ideas.Click (Here) to download the latest version of the OptionsXpress Robot. Please make sure that your OptionsXpress account is permissioned for XML API trading, otherwise you will…

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How My Trading Improved Thinking Like a Martial Arts Fighter

Bang! Bang! Oof! Ouch! These aren’t the sounds from a day in the market, it’s the sounds of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) which is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I’m a big fan of not only the incredible action in the ring, but the mental chess that’s played in…

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